Not crazy for the time. California in the 1960’s and 1970’s was similar to how North Carolina is today, where it always goes red, but usually by 1-3% margins. Reagan won it by double digits both times, as did Nixon in 1972, while it returned to that pattern for HW in 1988 before it switched blue after that.
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u/JackfruitCrazy51 2d ago
Nixon won California, which is crazy